Here's a simple way of reproducing the index error:
('';'+';'';'-') stringreplace 'ab'
|index error: stringreplace
| rep ind}exp#txt
FYI,
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Raul
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 2:38 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hmm.. actually, this does look like a flaw in stringreplace, in the
> sense that stringreplace currently supports replacing the empty string
> with a non-empty string. However, I have not yet thought of a simple
> way to reproduce the index error.
>
> But, I did run into another issue, which might be related:
>
> ('';'*';'a';'AA') stringreplace 'abc'
> *a*b*c
> ('a';'AA';'';'*') stringreplace 'abc'
> AA*b*c
>
> Here, I expected to get the same result from both expressions.
>
> (That said, in my context, I should not have been replacing empty
> strings. So that's still on me.)
>
> FYI,
>
> --
> Raul
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 1:16 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Ah, that is a bug in my code, then.
> >
> > And presumably every time it's replacing a null string, it's doing it
> > for every null string in the target. So... almost certainly not a bug
> > in stringreplace.
> >
> > Sorry about the noise,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:37 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > It fails on my system too. I observe that some of the replace strings
> > > are null:
> > >
> > > <./ #@> _2 ]\ X
> > > 0 13
> > >
> > > I don't know what stringreplace would do with that.
> > >
> > > Henry Rich
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/11/2022 11:47 AM, Eric Iverson wrote:
> > > > Raul,
> > > > Beta is a good place, at least for now. Is this with a custom build JE?
> > > > First step is to see if it fails in an official 903 release.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:26 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I ran into a bizarre error in stringreplace while working on
> > > >> converting dictionary content to wiki format:
> > > >>
> > > >> |index error: stringreplace
> > > >> | rep ind}exp#txt
> > > >>
> > > >> #rep
> > > >> 323777
> > > >> #ind
> > > >> 323777
> > > >> $txt
> > > >> 12253
> > > >>
> > > >> That said, I have been experiencing odd problems with my machines
> > > >> recently, so before I spend too much time on this: can anyone else
> > > >> reproduce the problem?
> > > >>
> > > >> Here's a script which triggers this error for me:
> > > >>
> > > >> https://gist.github.com/rdm/bf14417a605849ba61e397f888ace8c5
> > > >>
> > > >> (Also... is the beta forum the right forum for this kind of thing?)
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks,
> > > >>
> > > >> --
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